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Fair, but on a call with Dell on Thursday and the guy told me that price increases were absolutely on the way across the board.
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Leisher wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 4:42 pm Fair, but on a call with Dell on Thursday and the guy told me that price increases were absolutely on the way across the board.
Between AI + tariffs, sure.
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SATA coming off the board is not a nothing. It eliminates 1 of 3 types of SSD, and means motherboard manufacturers are now forced to make the change, which won't be free and could cause some short term shortages on that end. Sure, demand was down, but it wasn't nothing. In a vacuum, yes, this is a smaller thing, but with AI and global warming also driving up prices, it matters.
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Leisher wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:00 pm SATA coming off the board is not a nothing. It eliminates 1 of 3 types of SSD, and means motherboard manufacturers are now forced to make the change, which won't be free and could cause some short term shortages on that end. Sure, demand was down, but it wasn't nothing. In a vacuum, yes, this is a smaller thing, but with AI and global warming also driving up prices, it matters.
It's only Samsung not doing SATA. m2 was 43% of the market in 2024, must be more in 2025. Enterprise is abandoning SATA. Those are the best #s I could find. So SATA was already shrinking. Neither of the drives in my main laptop are SATA.
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Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview.
To be clear, Boone went to college (Missouri-Columbia) for 1 year, and then left. He didn't graduate.
“There are virtually no job openings,” said Emma MacCutcheon, 24, a recent graduate from the University of North Florida who studied psychology. “And when I do find jobs, every single one asks if I need a visa sponsorship.”
I think Emma is misconstruing this question. In my experience, it's a NEGATIVE, whereas she seems to think companies are looking for people who need sponsorship?

https://archive.is/vmBrr - The Young People Fixated on Who Gets to Work in America. For some Gen Z conservatives, H-1B visas are a hot new topic.
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TheCatt wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:07 pm Neither of the drives in my main laptop are SATA.
Ditto.
TheCatt wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 7:54 am H-1B visas are a hot new topic.
They should be.

Want to see blatantly racist hiring practices? Look at any company with an Indian CEO...
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iRobot files for bankruptcy and will be taken over by its Chinese creditors.

Thanks Senator Warren!
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Leisher wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 10:09 am Thanks Senator Warren!
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Correct, but her and some of her colleagues encouraged the FTC to kill the deal.

It was dumb to kill the deal as it never would have affected competition. As pointed out, nobody else was making the damn things except the Chinese.

Speaking of, does anyone actually have one? Are they worth it?
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I have one, and it's... fine. Kinda loud, does an OK job at best. But if you can run it with no one else home, it's kinda nice.
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